Post Institute

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Day One
•    9:00-10:00 Understanding the Psychology of Regulation (Schore)
•    10:00-11:00    Neurosciences for therapists: The primary components of the brain and the implications for stress/social and emotional challenges (Perry)
•    11:00-11:05 Break
•    11:05-1:00 Trauma and Relationship: understanding the levels of trauma/trauma events/commonalities/implications for therapy and parenting. (Perry, Levine, Van Der Kolk)
•    1:00-2:00    Lunch
•    2:00-4:00    Understanding the therapists emotional state as a reflection of the therapeutic process (Siegel)
•    4:00-5:00    Q and A; Processing

Total Hours: 6.5

Day Two
•    9:00-11:00     The Ethics of Touch in Psychotherapy (Zur)
•    11:00-11:05    Break
•    11:05-12:00    Role Play/ Demonstration/ Discussion/Exam (Post)
•    12:00-1:05     Lunch
•    1:05-3:00     Multi-Sensory and Somatic Therapy Practices (Levine, Shore, Post)
•    3:00-3:30    Break
•    3:30-5:00    The Practice of Attunement and Mindfulness in Therapy (Schore, Siegel, Kabat-Zinn, Post)
•    5:00-6:00    Q and A; Processing

Total Hours: 7.5

Day Three
•    9:00-11:00     Family-Centered Regulatory Parenting (Post)
•    11:00-11:05     Break
•    11:05-12:00    Psychodrama Role Play/ Discussion (Post)
•    12:00-1:05    Lunch
•    1:05-3:00    Family-Centered Regulatory Parenting: Exploring the Parenting Continuum and  Neurophysiologic Feedback Loops
•    3:00-3:30    Break
•    3:30-5:00    Regulatory Classroom: Interventions for classrooms for traumatized children (Post, Glasser, Levine)
•    5:00-6:00    Q and A; Processing

Total Hours: 7.5


Topics Include:
•    The foundation of attachment and why so many attachment professionals miss the point from the first session.
•    In depth discussion of the psychology of regulation and how this new field has quietly infiltrated universities, state and local government agencies, and began to really challenge the age old premises of CBT
•    The number one most important key to all of human relationships.
•    What Allan Schore has to say about attachment that changes everything.
•    We’ll explore the key principles of the Stress Model™ and how it can guide and inform every clinical action you take.
•    Examining the Parenting Continuum and how to differentiate between love and fear based practices.
•    Complete analysis and discussion of the 3 different forms of trauma.
•    Understanding shock trauma and it’s implications in the therapy process, how it shows up and what to do when you finally see it.
•    An evocative examination of the form of abuse that literally every academic institution has failed to examine, how to see it, what to do, and why.
•    The dynamic role of the therapist and why this provides the key to healing.
•    An ancient Hawaiian healing technique that strips bare everything we’ve learned about therapy.
•    Each of the most critical important areas of the brain and how, when, where, and why to access each one in the most critical moments.
•    The “secret life of the family” why we miss it, how to see it, and what to do to reveal it.
•    The number one method for bringing the unconscious to the conscious state and why this is imperative.
•    Your role and ultimate need to take 100% responsibility, based on the ancient Hawaiian healing technique that I’ve recently learned and is changing everything that I do.
•    A dynamic new process for engaging families and children in play therapy, something I’ve never shared before plus I’ll have the pioneer of this new unique perspective at the training all weekend.
•    The ethics of touch in psychotherapy
•    Therapist role in healing and how to maximize it for effective outcomes
•    The number one key component in all of therapy, how we fail to see it, and how you never will after this event.
•    Accessing your emotional self and the imperative nature of its role in your healing adventure
•    Emotional Process Work- exploring, understanding and growing
•    How to lead your clients into emotional work
•    The answer to resistance and what you must see and hear to overcome it
•    Unleashing your higher self
•    How to become a blank slate for your clients
•    Exploring the window of tolerance within yourself and others
•    The dance from inflexible to flexible and why it is so important to understand this
•    Get free of your emotional therapist blocks that you never even knew you had
•    Engaging couples for improving marital communication patterns
•    The single greatest reason why we struggle with parents we work with
•    The way of the warrior therapist and why this path of performance and action will lead you to greater empowerment
•    And an abundance of dynamic interactions that go beyond the cognitive and into the hidden energy of who we really are
•    The principles of family centered regulatory parenting
•    Parenting practices to teach and live by that will change the way in which you do therapy
•    The educational tools and techniques I’ve implemented for years to literally reduce the need for therapy
•    How to utilize this one principle to reduce foster care disruptions and improve adoption outcomes
•    Three key factors in parenting the most difficult foster children
•    The one element all adoptive children long for yet resist because of it
•    How this one little practice will have your clients feeling and seeing in a manner they’ve never done before
•    How to become certified POST and what this can do for your life and community
•    The specific understanding that has guided my best-selling books and led parents to transform their families with minimal guidance.
•    The one true key to ending world conflict
•    How to develop the most enjoyable, stress-free practice of your professional career
•    What every parent ultimately needs and wants
•    How to reach more families and change more lives than you ever thought imaginable without doing more work than you are currently doing
•    How to maximize your therapy effectiveness and find the source of joy in your work
•    How to make a helping profession a heart joy rather than a heart burn
•    What the majority of therapist do and why you want to do the exact opposite
•    What means to be great as opposed to mediocre and how your desire to be great will reap massive positive outcomes for those you serve